Parenting Stress in Single Mothers Caring for Children with Delayed Growth and Development

Abstract

This research aims to determine parenting stress in single mothers who are caring for children with delayed growth and development, this is because caring for children with delayed growth and development is not an easy thing, especially for single mothers, with all the limited abilities they have, it makes mothers vulnerable to experiencing parenting stress, which reviewed through aspects and factors of parenting stress. The method used in this research is a qualitative method with a phenomenological approach. Sampling in the research used a purposive sampling method with interview data collection techniques. Subick in the research consisted of four single mothers who were caring for children with growth and development delays. Research results Overall, it shows that the subjects experienced parenting stress. In the four subjects the parenting stress experienced was caused by the absence of support from the family or the environment during parenting, the subject's condition was that he had to work to meet the family's needs, as well as the condition of the child with delays in growth and development, making the child completely dependent on the mother, with all the limited abilities that mothers have, they are vulnerable to experiencing parenting stress.